The Medicine Wheel is a magic circle that encompasses all of that world. As you journey around it, you will find wonders both within and without. With tenacity you will even discover the wonder of knowing about yourself:who you are, what you know and what you can do in this lifetime.
Native Americans saw life as a circle, from birth to death to rebirth. They knew how to acknowledge and celebrate the circles of their own lives so that they were able to flow and change with the changing energies that came with different ages. They knew that they, like seasons, passed throug serveral phases as the circle of life and time passed around them. They knew that to fall out of this circle was to fall out of rhythm with life and to cease to grow.
To remind yourself now of this circle, remember that you are always traveling around it. You enter the circle at one point, and the entrance gives you certain powers, gifts, and responsibilities. Your starting point is determined by the moon or month under which you were born. (Native Americans went by 12 different moons not 12 months.) Different starting points are governed by different elemental clans which tell you the element to which you are attached. This clan has nothing to do with the clans of kinship that existed in most tribes. These were determined by the clans of one's parents, and they, in turn, could govern the earthbound responsibilites one would have, as well as those one could marry.
The starting points are also governed by the Spirit Keeper of their direction.
As you pass around the wheel, you have the responsibility of learning about the different moons, totems, plants, and elements through which you pass. By learning this you keep your own life in constant change, you keep the life force beating within your heart.
The essence of the Medicine Wheel is movement and change.
May your journey around the Wheel be an adventure.
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